You seemed the one real person--the one sane thing in the whole ceremony.

I felt--I knew that you were--strong." She paused, alarmed at her own timidity; and again their eyes met.
"And why have you never come to me before ?" He had no particular meaning in the question; he was only conscious of an inexplicable wish to prolong the interview.
"Oh, I don't know--I scarcely know." Again she spoke quickly and nervously.

"I have come every night to hear you speak--I have loved to hear you speak.

But--but to be alone with you--" She paused, expressively.

"It is all so strange--so extraordinary.